Take this for what it is worth. This is the second
generic reference to the "secret sauce" that I have
seen in a week and the new code was only released 4
days ago. Oh how that makes me want to say the
open-source zealots were dead right, but I digress.
My personal take of Dave King's question was something
along the lines of release notes, known bugs,
interface changes, configuration changes, etc.
Tenable claims 3.0 was a complete re-write, so in a
complete rewrite does the software operate at the user
level 100% the same as it did in previous versions?
Every other app I've seen go through major re-writes
and that answer is a resounding NO.
George Theall and Renaud Deraison do an excellent job
of monitoring the list and responding in a timely
manner, I applaud you. However in the way of
documentation I have always thought Nessus was a bit
lacking. The current on-line documentation consists
of a faq, three pdf's, an install html, cron html, and
two credential html's. The pdf's consist of a
whopping 50 total pages. Oh and aside from the
install html it looks like although 2.6 is still
supported and open-source all on-line docs are
rapidlly dissappering with the release of 3.0. Of
course I could go to a book store and drop 30 - 60
dollars on a book, which seems to be the perferred
method for Tenable to educate thier users on an
otherwise free product.
In short I don't beleive Dave King was asking for
specifics of the code or the algorithims Tenable is
using to increase perfomance. Let's face it the 6
bullets on the release announcement would hardly
classify as change documentation.
I.B.
--- "George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:38:15PM -0700, Dave King
wrote:
Is there any documentation for the changes in NASL
3.0.
There aren't any changes in the language itself, at
least that I'm aware
of. As for specific details on the speed-up, well,
as Ron Gula said
elsewhere, that's a "secret sauce" question. :-)
George
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